Tag - music
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Video and Learning Music
Saturday, August 16th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Please join us for a musical performance by Video and Learning Music, two projects by the lovely Max and John of ing. Please note that Video does not involve any videos. Learning music does involve music, and possibly learning.
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Video and Learning Music Saturday 8pm
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 at 7:35 am
8pm Saturday August 16th Free Please join us for a musical performance by Video and Learning Music, two projects by the lovely Max and John of ing. Please note that Video does not involve any videos. Learning music does involve music, and possibly learning. ——————————
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3 Days of Banjo Trance with Emily Lacy
Friday, June 20th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Monday – Wednesday June 23, 24, 25 Throughout the day Performance from the window of Machine Project Tuesday June 24th 8pm Experimental community folk chant and sing Conducting light particles passing through the Machine Project window, Emily Lacy will give a 3-day musical performance concerning the speed of light, gravitation, and matter, utilizing banjo, guitar, [...]
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small is beautiful + strings and electrons
Monday, May 5th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
small is beautiful: an approach to design and business 8pm, Thursday May 8th FREE monome is brian crabtree and kelli cain, a small company creating adaptable, open-source hardware interfaces used by musicians, artists, and tinkerers world-wide. they will discuss their progression from art practice to sustainable business, emphasizing minimalist design, transparency, and local, responsible production [...]
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strings and electrons
Monday, May 5th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
8pm Sunday May 11, 2008 FREE pieces of pretty music by ezra buchla (viola, electrons), amy radunskaya (cello), brian crabtree (magic boxes) join us for an evening of moving sounds small and large.
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TABLACENTRIC Closing Party!
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 at 10:16 am
TABLACENTRIC Closing Party – 10PM – 1AM FREE featuring DJ Disko AM and Robin Sukhadia (SADUBAS) live art by Santiago Heredia VJ: Karl Fornander TABLACENTRIC wouldn’t be complete with a killer party, celebrating an entire month of musical exploration, listening, cooking, invention, and playing tabla. Come to Machine Project to hear south Asian underground beats [...]
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FIELD: Sukhadia (tabla) + Kitundu (invented instruments)
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Friday April 11, 2008: FIELD Sukhadia + Kitundu FREE Concert 7PM FIELD is an intersecting collaboration between instruments and tradition: tabla and phonoharps. Ancient traditional practice, new instrumentation, and improvisational imagination merge to create new soundscapes. The future of sound will be shaped by the cross-fertilization of cultures and the breaking down of communication and [...]
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Listening Session: Talvin Singh, Swapan Chaudhuri, & Zakir Hussain
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Friday March 28, 2008 – 7pm FREE Tonite, we listen and we learn. TABLACENTRIC will present a series of audio recordings tracing tabla in all its manifest beauty, from the classical to the contemporary. Specifically, we will be listening to Talvin Singh‘s landmark album, OK as well as selections from tabla solo and accompaniment recordings [...]
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TABLACENTRIC: Closing Party
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 at 9:26 pm
TABLACENTRIC Closing Party – 10PM – 1AM FREE featuring DJ Disko AM, and Robin Sukhadia (SADUBAS). Special guests include Mike, Sheila Govindarajan & Walter Kitundu. live art by Santiago Heredia VJ: Karl Fornander TABLACENTRIC wouldn’t be complete with a killer party, celebrating an entire month of musical exploration, listening, cooking, invention, and playing tabla. Come [...]
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Ajay Kapur – Electronic Sitars, Robotic Tablas, and Sarawati’s ElectroMagic
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 am
April 3, 2008 – Ajay Kapur: Robotics + Tabla/Sitar FREE Presentation 5 – 7PM TABLACENTRIC is thrilled to present Ajay Kapur, whose work revolves around one queston: “How do you make a computer improvise with a human?” Using the rules set forth by the north Indian classical tradition, Ajay strives to build new interfaces for [...]
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An Evening of Tabla Performances: in Memory of Uttam Chakraborty
Friday, March 21st, 2008 at 11:57 am
Saturday April 5, 2008 7pm FREE Mesmerizing tabla performances will be the focus of this special evening dedicated to art of solo tabla. An instrument widely used in an accompaniment context, tabla itself is based on a richly evolved solo tradition. The art of solo tabla takes the listener on a journey through fixed compositions [...]
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Sarode and Tabla Concert + Demonstration with David Trasoff and Leonice Shinneman
Monday, March 10th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Saturday March 15th 2pm FREE David Trasoff and Leonice Shinneman, based locally in Los Angeles, share a performance highlighting afternoon ragas on Sarode (the traditional north Indian fretless lute). The performance includes a discussion on the evolution and development of raga. David Trasoff has studied sarode performance and North Indian classical music under maestro Ali [...]
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Delhi2Dublin
Monday, March 10th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Friday March 14 7pm FREE TABLACENTRIC‘s Kick-Off Event features a special performance / demonstration by Delhi2Dublin. Tabla and the rhythms of north India intersect with Celtic musical ideas and concepts. Tarun, the group’s tabla player, will guide a discussion on the group’s creative process and influences: Blending east and west, electronic and acoustic, mainstream and [...]
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Tabla Classes: Beginner + Intermediate
Monday, March 10th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Part of Robin Sukhadia’s TABLACENTRIC month at Machine Project! Come explore culture, sound design, creativity and rhythm through the language and notes of tabla, the traditional drums of north India. Robin Sukhadia, disciple of Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, leads focused classes on learning and applying the rhythmic language behind tabla. Drums are available for learning and [...]
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Pirates Songs on leap year day
Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Sea Songs 8pm Friday, February 29, 2008 Free The role of music was very important to the age of sail. Sea shanties were sung by sailors to ease the burden of hard physical labor and the treacherous life at sea. These songs served to both boost on-board morale on long voyages and to coordinate the [...]
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Pirate Songs
Sunday, February 17th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Sea Songs 8pm Friday, February 29, 2008 Free The role of music was very important to the age of sail. Sea shanties were sung by sailors to ease the burden of hard physical labor and the treacherous life at sea. These songs served to both boost on-board morale on long voyages and to coordinate the [...]
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Sejayno
Saturday, February 16th, 2008 at 12:00 am
We’re so very pleased to present a show/demonstration/lecture/concert/freakout by Sejayno. Check out Pete’s website for images and info on all the crazy electronic sound making stuff.
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Emily Lacy and Jackson Fledermaus
Friday, December 14th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Please join us to hear new friend Jackson Fledermaus sing with gusto, and support old friend. Emily Lacy’s bid to set the Guiness Book of World Records for most performances at Machine ever.
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Emily Lacy and Jackson Fledermaus
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 1:04 am
8pm Friday Dec 14th Free Please join us to hear new friend Jackson Fledermaus sing with gusto, and support old friend Emily Lacy’s bid to set the Guiness Book of World Records for most performances at Machine ever. We wouldn’t miss it for the world.
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Spectral Delivery
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Mark Dresser – Spectral Delivery 5pm Sunday Dec 9th Free The excavation of musical possibilities from the double bass is the subject of Mark Dresser’s lecture/demo/performance. Exploring the micro details of string vibration through improvisation, recording, analysis, codification, and composition has led to the development of a custom made electro-acoustic pick-up system and a rich [...]